Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The main issues or concerns with device repositories are 1) the time and resources required for maintaining the repository accurate and useful over time, and 2) fragmentation (a favorite topic in mobility). When developing a product, you either marry to a specific solution, or try to abstract it (using your own abstraction) which kind of … Read more
Via Michael Yuan’s blog: Austin TX is the #3 best city for jobs in America. ceo
From Bruce Schneier on Steal This Wi-Fi: Security is always a trade-off. I know people who rarely lock their front door, who drive in the rain (and, while using a cellphone) and who talk to strangers. In my opinion, securing my wireless network isn’t worth it. And I appreciate everyone else who keeps an open … Read more
Richard Humbach, Nokia Emerging Business Unit on Mobile payments and banking with NFC (4:51min) ceo
Little by little, contactless (NFC) awareness, in this case with respect to mobile payment, is happening, plus interesting information about consumer preferences with respect to this. Below is some information from a recent survey (end of 2007) by ABI Research on this topic: From ABI Research’s Mobile and Contactless Payments: End-User Survey Analysis and ContactlessNews’ … Read more
Posted below are the currently confirmed programming titles for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival, for Mobility: Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle (Kate Bauer) Getting Unstuck II: From Desktop to Device (Liz Danzico) How Many Clicks to the Center of…? (Conleth O’Connell) Life after the i-Phone (Kate Ryan) Mobile Phones: International Devices of Mystery … Read more
A very interesting read by Jeff Fedor titled CTO Handbook — How to care for and feed your CTO describes the various characteristics and personalities of CTOs. Jeff covers three types of CTOs: The Technical Founder – the person that wrote the code that got the company off the ground. Has sweated to give the … Read more
The first Carnival of the Mobilists of 2008 has been published at Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog. A great edition it is with lots of great of entries from mobility bloggers from around the world… Check it out! ceo
Just noticed that Hoot Gibson, the former astronaut who gave me my Silver Snoopy Award many years ago is now Chief Pilot at Benson Space Company, one of the new private space companies in the space race (space tourism). The photo below is of Hoot Gibson handing and congratulating me on the Silver Snoopy Award: … Read more
If your Windows system performance suddenly becomes really bad without any explanation, continue reading this. I spent weeks trying to figure out why my laptop’s performance suddenly became really bad without any explanation. Hitting Google continue to returned the typical stuff of “you may have malware” or viruses or whatnot, which that was not the … Read more